Drew S. Jacoby-Senghor and Michael Rosenblum and N. Derek Brown — Not all egalitarianism is created equal: Claims of nonprejudice inadvertently communicate prejudice between ingroup members
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Thesis
White listeners detect bias concealed in egalitarian self-claims. · ch. 1
Argument
- Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests — ch. 2
- Egalitarian statements can transmit prejudice between group members — ch. 2
- Perceivers infer others’ hidden prejudice from egalitarian claims regardless of liking — ch. 2
Annotation Roundup
Question
- White listeners detect bias concealed in egalitarian self-claims. — The effect sizes are small (r ~ 0.14). Worth chasing: does this detection capability scale up, or does it only work at the margins?
- Perceivers infer others’ hidden prejudice from egalitarian claims regardless of liking — What ‘cues’ drive the inference of underlying prejudice from egalitarian statements? Mechanism unexplored in the write-up.
- Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests — Would spontaneous, non-deliberative statements yield larger effects, as authors speculate? Poses a replicable follow-up. Xref
- White listeners detect bias concealed in egalitarian self-claims. — Directly connects to the reader’s question of whether professed egalitarian conviction predicts actual measured bias — here perceivers actually infer real prejudice from the self-presentation.
- Egalitarian statements can transmit prejudice between group members — Directly instances the reader’s question of whether egalitarian/professed conviction backfires — egalitarian avowals function as a vector transmitting the speaker’s underlying prejudice.
- Perceivers infer others’ hidden prejudice from egalitarian claims regardless of liking — Connects to the reader’s research thread on whether professed egalitarian conviction predicts or diverges from actual measured bias — this shows perceptual attunement to the divergence.
- Avowals of egalitarianism signal hidden prejudice even under conservative tests — Backfire effect central to the reader’s question about egalitarian rhetoric inadvertently communicating prejudice within the ingroup.